[PATCH RFC] arm64: entry: PSTATE_I_SET is leaking on pseudo NMI mode

Breno Leitao leitao at debian.org
Mon Aug 10 05:59:49 PDT 2026


On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 12:43:11PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 09:29:12AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 07:58:21AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > > Meanwhile, I will try to ftrace the writes to PMR and regs->pmr to get
> > > a better grasp of the states machine we are in (probably on Monday).
> > 
> > It seems LLM found a very easy to reproduce this:
> > 
> > 	bash-5.1# dmesg
> > 
> > 	bash-5.1#  cd /sys/kernel/tracing
> > 	echo 'r:pmr vfs_read bad=+0($retval):u64' >> kprobe_events
> > 	echo 1 > events/kprobes/pmr/enable
> 
> Nice, that triggers straightforwardly in QEMU for me. The diff below
> (which implements my suggestion from [1]) seems to fix the issue, but
> it would be good to hear feedback from one of the Arm folks.

I've tested the patch on my machines, and it fixes all the cases I've
got.

If it is useful:
  Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>

Thanks for looking at it,
--breno



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